Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Improves Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia

Effects of noninvasive brain stimulation on cognitive function in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In general, high frequency rTMS facilitates cortical excitability (Pascual-Leone et al, 2005; Peinemann et al, 2004), whereas low frequency rTMS suppresses cortical excitability (Muellbacher et al, 2000). The facilitatory effects of high frequency rTMS on various cognitive functions have been documented in multiple studies (Grafman and Wassermann, 1999; Guse et al, 2010) and may be used to treat a variety of cognitive disorders (Anderkova and Rektorova, 2014; Nadeau et al, 2014; Wolwer et al, 2014). In addition to rTMS, tDCS may also be used in a therapeutic context (Kuo et al, 2014).…”

Is the human mirror neuron system plastic? Evidence from a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

“…Mirror mechanisms in the IFG are likely to mediate these behavioral effects (Enticott et al, 2008b;Mehta et al, 2012). LTP-like plasticity harnessing effects of HF-rTMS have been recently used to improve social impairments in patients with schizophrenia -delivered to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Wolwer et al, 2014), and autism -delivered to the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (Enticott et al, 2014). Though the effect sizes observed in these studies are small, the findings are promising.…”

Use of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Treatment of Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

“…The authors also reported that there was no correlation between clinical improvement and facial affect recognition. The results indicate that prefrontal 10 Hz rTMS stimulation may help to correct impaired facial affect recognition in schizophrenia [33].…”